Earlier I asked a question that I'd like to ask more directly now - do you, the taxpayer, feel responsible for the national debt that Congress carelessly ran up?

Or do you feel that Congress is the responsible party? Personally, I feel Congress made these bills and ran up the debt without needing to in order to get all the perks and pork for their voters. They never consulted me re their excesses, but I have contacted them quite a few times complaining about this issue. But I, probably like you, am always over-ridden, ridiculed, talked down to as though I am the family idiot - and they go right ahead and do what I've begged them not to do.

That being the case, I don't feel like paying for their lack of financial responsibility. I'm ready to call them on the carpet for that expense. Do you feel the same way, or do you just grit your teeth and tolerate them wasting your money doing things you abhor, treating you like dirt, then sticking you with the bill? I'm tired of being thought of as an idiot, as a servant, as one of their useful hirelings. I owe Congress NOTHING. NOT ONE SINGLE SOLITARY THING. Do you feel you owe them something? They're wining and dining on our dimes, you know, and probably laughing at you and me all the way to the bank or to the Bahamas, or wherever royalty go.

I have 4 kids, all raised without government assistance - it meant my husband and I had to both work, but that is something most families have to do. Some simply cannot work as we did due to circumstances beyond their control, and I understand that, and my disgust does NOT spread to those who are innocent bystanders having a hard time. I would like to know; however, why my family's hard earned dollars must go to pay the way for people who are on the dole simply because they are too lazy to work or they are unemployable because of lack of education, experience, proper demeanor, all sorts of issues that are WITHIN their control. My entire family is conservative and I would like to know why my dollars are taken from me to support liberal causes, for which I have no use. And I would like to know what conservative causes tax dollars are used for - liberals must hate that - if there are any conservative causes supported with tax dollars. I would like to know why my dollars must go to people who ridicule and try to destroy Christianity - I believe that is abhorrent behavior and I don't want my tax dollars going there. Why must my tax dollar go to fund the UN which I see as an abominable institution in direct conflict with the American way of life. I would like to know why my tax dollars, hard earned, are going to public schools who propagandize for the liberal wing of politics and belittle children's heritage and history. Why would I want to pay for that?

We have some truly sick people within our capital, and I am sorry they are so warped, but I see no reason to pay them to continue being that way or to drag the entire nation down because of their self-centeredness. How do you feel?